DNS is incredibly slow on Lion 10.7.4 when connected to a .local domain

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DNS is incredibly slow on Lion 10.7.4 when connected to a .local domain

Im running Lion 10.7.4 and am connected to a .local domain. I've googled the problem and cant really work out if there is a fix or not.

I am also running VMWare Fusion on the same machine with Windows 7. neither Lion or Windows 7 are joined to the domain. The windows 7 VM browses the internet perfectly but lion is painfully slow.

My IP's are DHCP assigned and the search domain is xxxx.local

The VM is using bridged not NAT which is why the VM is perfming perfectly.

I know its something to do with the .local but cant change the TLD here so need a fix. 🙂

PLEASE HELPPPP 🙂

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.4)

Posted on May 21, 2012 4:18 AM

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Answer 1

Shootist007

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May 21, 2012 4:21 AM in response to steve@itaylorweb

I beleive it is a bug in Safari. Try a diferent browser.

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Answer 2

May 21, 2012 4:29 AM in response to Shootist007

Im using Chrome and it happens in Safari and Firefox too. To be honest its not specifically web browsing. DNS is just ridiculously slow when connected to a .local domain.

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Answer 3

Jun 3, 2012 11:10 AM in response to steve@itaylorweb

Have you tried putting the 'local' domain in your dns search domains. I think that fixed it for me. I also have the local loopback in the dns server list (127.0.0.1).

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